On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 22:53 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > I'm usually of the opinion that more information is better as long as it > > doesn't compromise someone's privacy. If this is optional information > > it probably wouldn't violate that principle. I could see this kind of > > data being useful for things like: > > > > 1) Estimating how much of an investment companies besides Red Hat have > > in Fedora. > > However, if it's only optional... > > > 2) Having figures on community contributors to post as part of a reply > > to "Fedora is RHEL Beta". > > It leaves out so many ways that people can be part of the community... > > ... write docs for Fedora > ... do artwork for Fedora > ... do testing of Fedora > ... port Fedora to other platforms > ... contribute patches to Fedora > ... do upstream development with/on Fedora > ... maintain systems for Fedora > > I'm not saying that collecting these metrics, or things like Warren's > different-levels-of-packaging proposal aren't something that can be > useful. But I'd like us to think how we can somehow collect stats > that somehow encompass the entirety of someone's contributions. > Oh yeah! Now you're talking :-). I would really love to be able to hit a web page enter someone's name and get a list of all their contributions to Fedora. Some nice summaries and graphs (% patches accepted into the package; % Fedora contribution in each subproject,...) It would be an interesting cross with social networking to see how projects you work on intersect with projects that other Fedora Contributors work on. Hmmm... I work on the Turbogears package and Luke Macken works on TurboGears. Luke works on Fedora Infrastructure projects. Wow, Infrastructure is using TurboGears all over the place! I think I should sign up to help out there! -Toshio
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